Seattle Healthy Places Research Group Forum

The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Department of Urban Design and Planning invite you to attend the monthly meeting of the Seattle Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG). This group welcomes public health and planning faculty, researchers, students, practitioners, and others interested in exploring the relationship between the built environment and the health of communities.

Branden Born, Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning, will be presenting “Planning as if Eating Mattered: Building Environments that Promote Healthy Eating .”

Born studies planning process and social justice; land use planning and regionalism; and urban food systems. Currently he is working with stakeholders from around Washington State to examine land use regulations with regard to environmental sustainability and agricultural viability; he is also working with citizens and elected officials to develop local food policy and a Regional Food Policy Council at PSRC (Puget Sound Regional Council), as well as collaborating with researchers and community members on several healthy community initiatives. He is co-author of the APA’s Planning Advisory Service Report on Planning for Community and Regional Food Systems.